Gloucester Saint

Yesterday’s announcement really pissed off a lot of people in the middle ground and quite frankly, any reasonable and decent sane human being. The idea that say an SME owner employing people or cancer scientist who have been here 15-25 years will tolerate being on a 5-year fixed term stay, effectively for the rest of their days is for the birds. Big miscalculation. I dare say some Reform supporters even thought it was going too far. Rebekah Brooks saying in the Sun’s editorial that it may be popular with voters was hopeful that millions of people will forget the new ITV drama about her and others appalling criminality and perverting the course of justice. As you say, let’s hope Farage carries on parroting Trump and recruiting the shittiest end of the ERG. They’ll be cut down to their natural size soon enough whether their window lickers carry on putting flags up or not.

Certainly I’d be asking Jack and Wood to leave a few studs in during training on challenges, the odd knee to the hip and into his back. Wind him up a bit on an autumn morning and see if he’s going to respond in the right way.

If Sugawara hadn’t left on loan I’d have put him in goal. Very adept at handling the ball in the penalty area.

I said he is a poundshop Trump but that’s more like 1p. Saying anything to be in the news.

Jon Brady also linked, good option at that level. Some sympathy with Michael Flynn where the Mike Garlick takeover only happened last few days of the window but they’ve been diabolical, much worse than Saints.

Bazunu still starts league games so wouldn’t be so sure there isn’t interfering from Rasmus via Spors. If Downs is still featuring at the weekend we have our answer.

Miles better footballer than Downs. SR can’t stick their head in the sand like they’ve done with Bazunu, this is an AI signing and total fuck up. Just take the loss and give him away to a smaller MLS outfit and they take the wages. He will never improve to the point of playing in the Champ and he’s miles off League 1 as well. He wouldn’t even get a game at Cheltenham and we are managerless (Cotterill might becoming back) and rock bottom of the EFL. I’m not joking.

Worse than that. U21s and then when does the MLS window open? Might just take a loss or loan with a very low buy option. The club have been stubborn about Bazunu but they really are needing to write off here, be lucky to get 2m for him. I had a feeling at the Stoke game the players really didn’t want to pass to him and easy to see why. Whoever recommended signing the worst footballer I’ve seen National League and upwards for any club should be taken outside of an SR board meeting and shot by one of Dragan’s party.

Majority of our gas comes from Norway via the big Centrica deal and something of a trade off within their sovereign fund’s large-scale investment in UK infrastructure. Around a third from UK North Sea.

Mads will be back up shortly.

He’s been a huge upgrade tonight and vs rather stronger opponents too.

UK doesn’t import gas from Russia, hasn’t since 2023 https://www.sunsave.energy/blog/uk-gas-sources EU less reliant but still buying too much https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanctions-russia-gas-banks-crypto-lng-us-president-donald-trump-war/ Hungary and Slovakia, led by Putin stooges, are refusing to set a date for ending purchases which is why the EU should do so on a non-100% member state vote.

Normally ‘Get me out of here’ would logically follow but ‘FFS get him out of here’ would be the Thailand/Cambodia response.

The contract extension was ludicrous but still, THB has been our worst defender by far. I know he didn’t have a pre-season, but Hull away was akin to Alan Bennett v Palace and Scowcroft. If he doesn’t pull his finger out, Andreas Jakobsson is getting displaced in our worst ever XI, that‘s how dreadful THB is at the moment.

Didn’t really drill down on that aspect, too busy on climate denial and immigration.

It follows on from his unfounded and irresponsible bollocks yesterday with his fellow populist fruitloop RFK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj07e3rjev2o

Abundantly clear from his pitiful rant at the UN what’s wrong with America, world and human race. We are fucked.

Desperate for the human race to be in this position. People on here can say ‘oh, you shouldn’t call people who vote for him thick or denigrate them’ but what else can you do? Anyone who agrees with his speech or thinks it’s acceptable needs mental health assistance, and that’s without his and RFK’s lunatic comments about Tylenol and autism yesterday.

Sad but he looked very unwell at the Headingley Test. Mind you, told my two friends to fuck off very early 1990s when they asked for autograph.

Western democracies have to become a lot more nimble though to head off populism - ending the unanimous EU votes to cut Hungary and Slovakia out to hit Russia hard. Asylum policy might have to change monthly to defeat the lawyers and activists as well.

He’s a nutcase - and the reason Europe is still buying oil from Russia, his fig leaf for not sanctioning the crap of his puppet master, is because of two Putin and Trump satellite states, Hungary and Slovakia who have consciously and politically made themselves reliant on Russian supplies. Personally I’d change the voting rules if I were the EU to make votes not need 100% which they do on so-called sensitive topics. I’d take this one out of the sensitive category and get around the two loons.

Birmingham and Leicester are already categorised as superdiverse and part of W Yorks and E Lancs probably aren’t off. That’s with probably 99% UK born as well. I agree on asylum cases being too high, but culturally it’s better to spend time in what we enjoy which reflects our heritage - say cask ale, industrial heritage, or enjoying the countryside around our cities with others. The world has changed far more than just migration, Clinton allowing China to join the WTO probably did more harm to our traditional manufacturing industries than the trade unions, management, non doms and the EU combined. But we have to find new ways to innovate as we’ve always done, and we don’t want to choke off demand when there’s a promising pipeline as Trump just recklessly did to big tech in the States with their HB-1 visa huge cost hike. Re the NHS, it has been a mess but remember how many lives it saved 5 years ago. Compare it to the differential in survival rates between Blue and Red state health systems in America where the health systems and politicians in blue states saved hundreds of thousands more lives allied to more negative vaccine attitudes (something we are seeing with both GOP and Reform). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10684792/ Streeting is doing the right thing by merging NHS England and DHSC even though there are very high job losses as a result, but there’s a long way to go. Happy to look at continental health models but Farage has made previous comments are a serious red flag although he does flip flop on the issue with devolved nations https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/13/ukp-nigel-farage-nhs_n_6150688.html and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39z71kmexdo

The fact that Reform gets so much coverage has rather more to do with the following: - Tim Davie is actively encouraging BBC to cover them positively (former Tory donor) - Mail, Express, Sun and Telegraph openly espouse their policies. As you say Duck, for party with only 4 MPs it is rather disproportionate - Reform also spends x2.5 more, and growing rapidly, more than any other party on Facebook and other SM advertising, 99% of which is about immigration.

Very good grounds for not believing anything Farage says https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/11/08/when-he-supported-norway-the-brexit-policy-farage-would-rather-forget/ https://www.facebook.com/leedsforeurope/videos/farage-makes-the-case-for-joining-the-eu-single-marketnorway/1540023163214849/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/farage-predicts-norwegian-style-deal-for-britain-post-brexit Instead, he went around in 2019 saying that anything other than a WTO Brexit wasn’t really Brexit. You’d be a very simple individual to believe anything Farage says.